Rola Komitetu Przeciwko Torturom w systemie prawnym ONZ. Skarga indywidualna na naruszenie Konwencji

Abstract

The suppression of the practice of torture was one of the main challenges taken up by the United Nations after its establishment. In order to protect all people from being sub-jected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the UN has adopted universal standards embodied in international conventions and declarations. One of them has been the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or De-grading Treatment or Punishment, which set up new monitoring body – the Committee against Torture, to ensure that the Convention is implemented by its state-parties. All States must submit regular reports to the Committee on how the human rights are being imple-mented. There are also other control mechanisms: such as inquiries, state-to-state com-plaints and individual complaints.